Christians should be 'anxious' to add voice to constitutional review matters - Premier
Speaking on the need to get all involved in the process, the Premier during the Friday, November 11, 2022, official launch of consultations for the review, said he will be engaging the Christian community to ensure their members are fully a part of the process.
Christian community to be engaged - Premier
“I'm going to actually ask the head of the Christian Council to organize a meeting with the Commission…. I believe that it's important that we use all mediums, all avenues, that we engage all sectors of our society, and certainly, I would tell our Christian community, and even beyond that, our religious community, that they can't take certain things for granted,” Hon Wheatley told the press.
He pointed to instances where religion will have possible impacts on how the Virgin Islands define matters like marriages, “Right now, for instance, we have court cases that are fundamental as it pertains to our views as a Christian society, and of course, I know the Christian council are very much engaged and some of those issues.”
Two women who were legally married under United Kingdom law since 2019, have sued the VI government in a bid to have their marriage recognized in the VI.
The court case concerns the validity of the marriage between Kinisha Forbes and Kirsten Lettsome and whether any prohibition against same-sex marriage in the VI is contrary to the VI constitution.
Defining marriages in VI
Premier Wheatley added, “So don't take it for granted, you have to ensure that your voice is heard and the Christian communities’ voices heard as it pertains to things like how do you see marriage for instance,” he said.
“Should marriage be between a man and a woman and should that be something clarified in the constitution?” he further questioned.
The Premier added that the VI Christian community should infract be anxious to be a part of the process to clarify issues that are of specific relevance to their belief system, given the VI is professed to be a Christian society.
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30 Responses to “Christians should be 'anxious' to add voice to constitutional review matters - Premier”
wow
Love to fool themselves into really believing they are . Well don't talk about the self proclaimed holy men of the cloth who simply refuse to accept that they cannot serve two masters , and we know who they are , because their speak for themselves , and their time will come . Amen
It’s Adam & Eve
Stop trying to out smart us. We are more enlightened on politicians tricks, than we were in time past.
We have a document were our people developed in 2007; however the united kingdom still holds the power and the authority to suspend "our-documents"
factually speaking; the suspension of that document the of the people of this land created is now up for suspension....
we need leadership who can sit peacefully with the united kingdom; while the people of this territory endeavor to move ahead for the benefit of our grandchildren
understood this; the few people who were questioned off by that recent commission of inquiries have place the people of the land in serious jeopardy
we need a constitution that will send those people we vote or placed to lead this territory to the jail house
Answer: Depopulation
Case close.
Throw out a referendum and let the people speak.